Leaders and legislators hailing from Ballari, which is part of the Kalyana Karnataka region, seem to be a source of much political upheaval in Karnataka, going by recent history. This has been the case since the time illegal mining hit national and international headlines in the 2000s and the place gained reputation as “Republic of Ballari”. Parameshwara Naik, who was …
Bengaluru: Amid the buzz over Ballari mining baron Janardhana Reddy’s new political party poaching senior leaders from the Bharatiya Janata Party, Karnataka transport minister B Sriramulu said that no leaders from the BJP, especially Reddy’s brothers and MLAs Somashekhar Reddy and Karunakar Reddy, would join the new party. Karnataka transport minister B Sriramulu, who was a close confidant of Janardhana …
ANANTAPUR: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on the Bharat Jodo Yatra currently on the AP - Karnataka borders cast his vote for AICC president poll in the specially set booth at his yatra camp in Ballari on Monday. The yatra would enter AP at Kshetra Gudi in Halaharvi mandal of Kurnool district from Ballari district around 6.30am October 18. As per …
150 days, 3,500 kilometres and 12 states. As Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo yatra enters its third leg in Karnataka, the first BJP-ruled state on the Kanyakumari-to-Kashmir journey, News18 walks along to decode what is fuelling the Congress leader and scores of others on the arduous march. PART 1 OF 5 Rahul Gandhi will be setting foot in the BJP-ruled state …
